TTEC vs. TBI, CCRN, HQI, RCMT, DLHC, KELYA, BBSI, KFRC, TINV, and ISPR
Should you be buying TTEC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TTEC include TrueBlue (TBI), Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN), HireQuest (HQI), RCM Technologies (RCMT), DLH (DLHC), Kelly Services (KELYA), Barrett Business Services (BBSI), Kforce (KFRC), Tiga Acquisition (TINV), and Ispire Technology (ISPR). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
TTEC (NASDAQ:TTEC) and TrueBlue (NYSE:TBI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends and analyst recommendations.
TrueBlue received 7 more outperform votes than TTEC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.05% of users gave TrueBlue an outperform vote while only 60.56% of users gave TTEC an outperform vote.
38.0% of TTEC shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.2% of TrueBlue shares are held by institutional investors. 59.3% of TTEC shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of TrueBlue shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, TTEC had 5 more articles in the media than TrueBlue. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for TTEC and 0 mentions for TrueBlue. TrueBlue's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat TTEC's score of -0.38 indicating that TrueBlue is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
TTEC has higher revenue and earnings than TrueBlue. TrueBlue is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TTEC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TTEC currently has a consensus target price of $15.60, suggesting a potential upside of 114.29%. TrueBlue has a consensus target price of $13.00, suggesting a potential upside of 16.38%. Given TTEC's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe TTEC is more favorable than TrueBlue.
TTEC has a net margin of -0.52% compared to TrueBlue's net margin of -0.63%. TTEC's return on equity of 9.61% beat TrueBlue's return on equity.
TTEC has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TrueBlue has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
TTEC beats TrueBlue on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding TTEC and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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